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748193

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date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when magnetic implants to improve eyesight will be available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>It is for local National Health Service commissioners to make decisions on whether to fund new treatments, taking into account National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, available evidence and individual patient’s clinical circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The future availability of any new or novel treatments would be subject to large scale clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the treatment approach and subsequent assessments of its cost effectiveness for routine use.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/07/2017 09:56:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748194

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that mental health patients can receive treatment closer to where they live.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of area placements are unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>To support the delivery of this ambition, in October 2016 the Government put in place the first data collection to secure much-needed national transparency on the number of patients that are sent out of their local area for acute inpatient treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is using this new data to support local health systems to develop and deliver trajectories to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million which has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution home treatment teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis response and intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning guidance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/07/2017 09:57:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748327

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet representatives of the Disabled Children's Partnership to discuss its Secret life of us campaign for support for disabled children and their families.
tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
tabling member printed	Mark Tami
uin	2886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak on 3 July 2017 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=1650" target="_blank">1650</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/07/2017 15:37:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami